SAP Business Network Commerce Automation
What is SAP Business Network Commerce Automation?
Improve spend visibility and supplier collaboration through automation to achieve operational efficiency and assurance of supply.
Reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve efficiency with supplier collaboration. The SAP Business Network Commerce Automation solution helps facilitate near-real-time information sharing and enhanced visibility into procurement processes.
- Compliance with business process and regulatory requirements
- Improved supplier management and spend controls
- Automated and standardised workflows
- Configurable business rules and network validation
Deploy with SAP NS2's secure cloud model
Protect your data and mitigate risk with additional security controls.
Benefits
Improve procurement compliance
Support business process compliance with highly configurable business rules on the network.
Automate spend management processes
Enhance productivity, lower operating costs, and free up your people’s capacity by automating paper-based and manual processes.
Increase transparency of business spending
Gain a holistic view of your organisational spend with greater visibility into orders and invoices in one platform.
Features
Supplier collaboration
- Access a community of global suppliers to easily connect, collaborate, and transact on a network
- Digitally exchange procurement and invoice information
- Leverage early-payment discounts and payment-terms optimisation
- Simplify supplier due diligence with automated, network-enabled collaboration and human rights data sharing
Regulatory and business process compliance
- Improve compliance through digital matching of invoices to POs and contracts
- Comply with regulatory requirements through e-invoicing
- Validate transactions based on configured business rules to reduce manual intervention and exceptions
Automated procurement workflows
- Automate manual processes to increase productivity, decrease operating costs, and free up workforce capacity
- Deliver POs to suppliers digitally across a business network
- Reduce paper and energy usage, waste, and carbon footprint
Supplier portal
- Allow your suppliers to flip a PO received on the network to create an invoice, eliminating data entry and other errors
- Give suppliers a view into invoice status updates to reduce inquiries
Invoice status portal and transaction visibility
- Gain visibility into orders and invoices with a holistic view into spend
- Enable suppliers to configure notifications to receive e-mails when their invoice status changes
- Drive adoption for long-tail suppliers through self-service updates and invoice visibility
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Improve spend efficiency and visibility
Learn how SAP Business Network Commerce Automation can help you automate invoice processing, increase compliance, and strengthen supplier relationships.
Discover SAP Business Network Commerce Automation
Automate procurement and invoicing for better supplier collaboration, spend visibility, and compliance.
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Technical and security information
This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any web browser.
Installation and setup
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Configuration
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Integration
Find out how you can integrate SAP products with your existing IT landscape.
Business process security
Support compliance with regulatory requirements.
Risk and threat mitigation
Drive continuous improvement across your operations.
Cloud delivery options
Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.
SAP Business Network deployed through SAP NS2’s secure cloud model
Gain supply chain and procurement process support while operating in an environment dedicated to security, data access, residency, and sovereignty.
Collaborate with trading partners, strengthen operations, and mitigate risk with additional security compliance
By deploying SAP Business Network through SAP NS2's secure cloud model, you can protect your sensitive information with additional security controls to mitigate internal and external risk.
- Process and transmit data confidently through the SAP NS2 security model
- Reduce TCO and increase time to value through automated solution deployment and security management
- Ensure regional security standards are enforced across your trading partner network
Enhanced security for operations
Process and transmit data through the SAP NS2 security model to mitigate the risk of international data exposure and prevent bad actors from accessing supply chain data.
Innovation backed by region-specific resources
Increase control of your cloud operations through a security model with in-country, credentialed resources who understand innovation and regional data regulations.
Localised protection of critical data
Leverage a heightened security model for end-to-end protection and comply with U.S. regulations to safeguard trading partner supply chain information.
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